There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.
There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
#122 of 200 in Embeddings.
On MTEB French v1 · Classification · French, Bilingual Embedding Large scores 69.2 vs 69.4 — about the same.
Released 2024-06-24. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Bilingual Embedding Large is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Lajavaness, released Jun 2024.
E5 Mistral 7B Instruct (better), F2LLM v2 8B (open weights).